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APRIL 14, 1947 “Federalization of education,” said Frank B. Keefe (R, Wis.) in the House debate, “was adopted in England. That’s how they got a Socialist government.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics suf- fered a 60-percent cut in funds in the House, “I ask you,” said Keefe, “aren’t you getting a little tired of statistics?” The BLS statistics are widely used by labor and management in day-to-day wage negotiations; they are, in fact, in- dispensable for collective bargaining and no substitute is available from any pri- vate agency. HEN the House debated funds for the US Conciliation Service, the homicidal atmosphere on the floor changed to one suitable only.to a lynch- ~ ing bee. Representative Keefe does not like Edgar L. Warren, director of the service, and the House voted to cut out salaries for Warren and 101 other Con- ciliation Service employees in order to force Warren’s ouster. The Conciliation Service is the only federal agency now engaged in efforts to reduce: industrial conflict. President Truman’s labor-management -conference:- in November; 1945, unanimously recom- mended expansion. of conciliation func- tions, and Warren’s administration has been -in line with this recommendation. Warren was charged with Communist sympathies by Representative Keefe. His “communism” consisted of prewar mem- bership. in a’ codperative Washington bookshop and the American League Against War and Fascism. The House committee did not even attempt to show that Warren followed the Communist Party line wandetings of the League after the Hitler-Stalin pact; testimony showed, in fact, that he had no connec- tion with “front” groups under such circumstances. But the House, laughing ind cheering at. Keefe’s sallies, uttered ander congressional immunity, voted to snock out his job. Senate Republicans, 0 their credit, show signs of developing \ strong aversion to pute smear tactics, Upon the Senate’s general attitude to- vard the NLRB and Labor Department ‘:ppropriations, however, depends the ‘nswer to the real question—whether, ‘fter Congress finishes, there will be any ederal labor functions worthy of the ame, WILLARD SHELTON 45 The Bandwagon, Open-Door Policy (assist by camel) SENATOR KNOWLAND: . . . I should like to ask the distinguished Senator from Texas if this one instance is allowed, will it become a case of the camel get- ting his nose in under the tent, and thus open the door to a whole field of similar requests ? — From the Congressional Rec- ord, Straw in the Wind Alvord & Alvord—Tax matters, $36,- B27 B56 ns Cahill, Gordon, Zachry & Reindel— Anti-trust matters, $33,000.00. Fish, Richardson & Neave—Patent and anti-trust matters, $229,979.70. Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett—Anti- trust matters, $338,000.00. — From the April 15, 1947, Proxy Statement of the only disbursements for legal services by General Electric. : Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief ‘of ‘Life IRUSSELL magazine, presented a colossal and heart- warming pictorial sales talk on the strength, beauty and potentials of this country and people—‘The New Amer- ica.” On a screen 40 feet wide and 12 feet high, a succession of colored still photographs—marvelously synchronized on five panels—were thrown, while an impressive narrator and symphonic music helped to impress the theme of an illimitable national future. The bear- ing on the foreign-policy issue was oblique, but many felt that it was there. ~ Arthur Krock in the New York Times. ° A Litile Child Shall Lead Them Fear that “Communists” might flock in among the orphan adoptees [{Euro- pean war orphans permitted to enter the US] was expressed by Representatives Leonard R. Dickinson, Bemidji, and John J. 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